How To Overcome Your Insecurity.
(Using this very silly canine as an example).
“Only bad writers think they’re good.” Harlan Coben
Alan Watts, philosopher and theologian, once made an interesting analogy concerning life as we know it. He asked his audience to imagine falling off a cliff and holding onto a large rock. My mind went straight to Wile E. Coyote. He was always holding onto a large falling rock, and usually missing the Roadrunner (quickus agilus bird) by a mile.
Now here’s the point Watts was making: Holding onto a rock while falling at two hundred miles an hour seems rather stupid, yet we do it every day without considering the consequences. In fact, holding onto rocks seems to be generational and far to ingrained at this point to be easily stopped.
As Watts explains, at a young and impressionable age, we see our parents and relatives as examples and, therefore, don’t question their choices. So it’s sort of a blind-leading-the-blind scenario. We all hold onto large rocks as we fall through life with the result being similar to Wile E. Coyote.
We go splat.
We go splat — not because we want to go splat — but because life is a continuous descent. We’re constantly falling and constantly wondering why we go splat, despite holding onto something that’s…